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AD-AWARE: Click here to download Lavasoft's Ada-ware spyware removal software. Periodic use of this or similar spyware search-and-removal software is recommended.
MICROSOFT: To download a Beta version of Microsoft's Spyware removal software, click here.
For information on Steve Gibson's ShieldsUp! diagnostic tool, click here.
Click here for Tiny Personal Firewall.

TechRepublic offers helpful discussion forums regarding a multitude of problems confronting PC users, including recovery after crashes, and HTML programming snarls, but the range of subjects is not limited to these matters. Click here to access TechRepublic's help forum.

If you are having trouble removing un-needed dll files (or restoring missing dll files), IamNotaGeek.com may provide some answers for you. Click here.

For helpful pay-as-you-go tech advice from PlumChoice.com, click here.

Another pay site --Tech24inc.com -- may help with Windows problems.

You can pay LiveRepair.com $99/year to help you with Windows problems.

Computing.net offers a free forum.

SpyBouncer may help you avoid sneaky spyware. Access SpyBouncer by clicking here.

Microsoft offers 7 steps to personal computing:
1. Assess your risks.
2. Use anti-virus software.
3. Keep software up -to-date.
4. Check your security settings.
5. Use a firewall.
6. Create strong passwords.
7. Conduct routine security maintenance.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/computer/default.mspx For more up-to-date Microsoft security tips, click here.

For three helpful hints from Microsoft on how to protect your laptop, click here.

Internet Security:
Microsoft is continuing an extensive research and development effort code-named Palladium, to drastically alter the whole world of Internet and PC security. The ambitious new program envisions security and privacy functions that would be etched onto PC chips, creating what MS project manager Mario Juarez sees as a virtual "security vault" in which encrypted information would be available only to those programs, web sites, and people that the computer recognizes as "authorized." Founder Bill Gates has given highest priority to making MS products secure. The Palladium project is expected to require several years for full development and implementation.

Protect Your System
More ways to help ensure your system is protected: -- Protecting your networks: wireless, firewalls, and perimeter security -- Patch management, security updates, and downloads -- Virus protection strategies. Click here.

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DOT.NET:
Microsoft regards its .Net (dot.net) as another improvement in web usage. Based on a programming language called XML (eXtensible Markup Language), .net programs will bridge the gaps between a variety of devices, making them more accessible and useful, one to the other. Microsoft .NET was first introduced as "a revolutionary new platform with tools and services that fully exploit both computing and communications."
To learn more about Microsoft.NET click here.

Setting up an Intranet or LAN:
Do you communicate wirelessly? Chances are you are using a wireless technology known as 802.11b or Wi-Fi. It offers an open-standard way to connect laptops and local area networks (LANs) by transmitting in the unlicensed 2.5 Ghz spectrum at speeds up to 10 Mbs, which is many times faster than the old T1. Now in use in many offices, Wi-Fi displaces costlier (and messier) wired set-ups, and has spread to home-use. Most PCs manufactured after 2004 accomodate Wi-Fi technology. Wi-Fi is currently offered by private enterprisers, both to individuals and in isolated areas in airports and in some municipalities in neighborhood blocks via small distribution boxes. These latter services are now up for grabs, so to speak, with local governments seeking the legal right to provide Wi-Fi services via municipal franchises. Some states like Florida and Pennsylvania have begun lobbying for laws to prohibit broadband offerings by government agencies. Wi-Fi seems to be the wave of the future as the technology improves, but look for further improvements in range and performance. The Bluetooth Protocol enables computers, cellphones and other devices to exchange data wirelessly at physical distances up to 10 meters (some say at greater distances). Called auto-initiation, this technology was created by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba. Of the wired variety of networks, Ethernet is currently the fastest system available.

About e-Lynks and other Delapress domains:

e-Lynks is one of several interrelated web sites under development by Delapress, Inc., an Arkansas corporation. First begun in the 1990s, e-Lynks continues to evolve as an efficient means of locating alphabeticallly categorized web sites on the world wide web. Our primary goal is to list decent and desirable web sites based on criteria established by some of the more responsible Internet Service Providers and their trade associations. These URLs are assigned to an appropriate alphabetized keyword category, an on-going process based largely on user input. All of our alphabetized e-Lynks listings are accessible from each of the individual pages. A second domain - aGoogling.com - was addded in 2006, combining the categorized e-Lynks listings with the more popular sites in these categories as determined by frequent GOOGLE searches. Google is neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. A third domain - INDXR.com - has been established as a means of directing traffic to e-Lynks, and to Google, and other helpful directories and search engines. Additional domains, including SafetoSee.com and 4UAlone.com are reserved for later development to meet anticipated needs. We are determined to make e-Lynks, aGoogling, and our other directories the best portals to the best websites on the Internet WITHOUT pop-up banner ads, commercial alliances or promotional gimmicks. Until these sites are fully developed, we shall remain graphics and ad-free and, for the time-being, we shall offer e-lynks as a public service to Internet users who need a fast-loading, clutter-free portal to some of the best web sites on the Internet. At some future date, and when appropriate, this package of Internet domains may be licensed to Internet companies who may then provide these directories as a public service to their clients and users, in which cases limited commercialization may be sanctioned.

Note to the discerning observer of the Internet scene:
It will be obvious to those who stay abreast of Internet developments that e-Lynks and affiliated web sites have great potential as revenue-producing adjuncts to fully established Internet sites and services such as GOOGLE, YAHOO, eBay, and others, including those now in their own nascent stages of development. Our sites have purposely NOT been commercially promoted. To see an eight-minute powerpoint presentation on INDXR, e-lynks, aGoogling, and other Delapress websites, turn up your audio volume, and click on this link. You will be asked to OPEN an attachment, and you may need to authorize pop-ups to activate our presentation, which will LOOP. If the audio-video portions are out of sync on your PC, send us an e-mail and we can send you a CD (serious lookers only, please). After viewing the presentation, click your browser's BACK button to return here.

To suggest the addition or deletion of a website, or to contact us for any other purpose, use this link to send us an e-mail. If your request is actionable a response will be forthcoming.

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Although e-Lynks updates these pages regularly, the information contained in websites accessed via e-Lynks is provided "as is." Delapress and e-Lynks make no warranties, express or implied, as to the fitness, truth, or any other aspect of such information. A listing does not in any wise imply an endorsement or recommendation. Neither e-Lynks nor Delapress nor any of their employees have been involved in the creation of the materials accessed via e-Lynks. Copyrights and trademarks, except those owned by e-Lynks and Delapress, are the property of the respective purveyors of specific Internet pages. We will not knowingly list any websites featuring undesirable content. We invite your comments and suggestions. Neither e-Lynks nor Delapress, nor any of their employees or agents, warrant or represent that any of the materials accessed via these pages, software or otherwise, will function as advertised, will safely run on the users' computers, or will achieve the results claimed by the author, programmer, or owner of the websites accessed via e-Lynks.

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